Analyzing Regional Inequality in Post-Mao China in a GIS Environment
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2003
Abstract
Regional inequality in China has attracted considerable scholarly attention, but the use of geographic information system (GIS) techniques for rigorous analysis remains limited. This paper utilizes recent data and GIS and spatial statistical techniques to analyze changing patterns of regional inequality in China from 1978 to 2000. It also identifies the changing clusters of regional development in China. We illustrate that regional inequality in China is sensitive to development trajectories of the provinces, and that conventional measures of regional inequality mask geographical clustering. Patterns of change are explained by both contextual and regression analyses.
DOI
10.2747/1538-7216.44.7.514
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Yu, Danlin and Wei, Yehua Dennis, "Analyzing Regional Inequality in Post-Mao China in a GIS Environment" (2003). Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 154.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/earth-environ-studies-facpubs/154